Barbara Vanyo, born February 13, 1853
at the village of Janovik, House #5, Budmir Parish, in the Kosice
District, Slovakia, died on March 31, 1938 and is buried in a
cemetery in Mount Carmel, PA.

Children

John Philock

Barbara was the odes child in the Vanyo
Family. It is understood that she and her brother John were the
first of the family to come to the United States. They settled
in Pennsylvania. Is is not know if Barbara married before or
after she came to the states.

After her husband died, Barbara stayed
with her son, John and his wife. In the 1920's, Barbara came
to Minnesota and briefly stayed with her brother Joseph Vanyo,
and her sister Dorothy (John) Myerchin, both by Tabor, Minnesota,
and also with her other sister Elizabeth (Anton) Homolka by Strahcona,
MN.

Emma (George) Vanyo and Rose (Max) Gust
remembered Barbara. She was a little woman who looked as if she
were all worn old. It was said that she had been abused and that
it why she came up to Minnesota. It is remembered that she would
wear seven dresses at once, starting at the beginning of the
week. As the week went on, when she would get one dirty, she
would take it off. She was also going blind, but always has the
Bible with her. She was not much of a talker, being quiet and
aloof.

After her stay in Minnesota for about
a year, she went back to Pennsylvania. It is unknown if Barbara
wrote to her brother or sisters in Minnesota after she left,
because it was reported on her sister Dorothy Myerchin's obituary
in 1942, that Barbara was a surviving sister, when in fact she
has died almost four years earlier.

Barbara's cause of death, in 1938, was
listed as chronic myocarditis, which it noted she had suffered
since 1934. The informant on her death certificate was a Mildred
Philock. This Mildred could have been her son John's wife. Barbara
is buried in Mount Carmel, PA. At this time, no survivors of
this branch of the family have been located (2001).